Nicie Panetta
@nicie.bsky.social
Devoted to books and the biosphere.
Rewilder at Northeast Wilderness Trust. Opinions my own.
Rewilder at Northeast Wilderness Trust. Opinions my own.
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I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
So honored by this delightful tribute from one of my true heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social to Northeast Wilderness Trust as we attain the milestone of 100,000 forever-wild acres conserved. 🌲 🫎
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So honored by this delightful tribute from one of my true heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social to Northeast Wilderness Trust as we attain the milestone of 100,000 forever-wild acres conserved. 🌲 🫎
The Polite
Slightly diminish a band:
The Beatless
The Beatless
Slightly diminish a band:
Hüsker Don’t
Hüsker Don’t
August 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The Polite
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Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!
Global Irish Survey: Consultation for Irish Diaspora Strategy | Ireland.ie
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is pleased to announce that it is undertaking an extensive consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy.
www.ireland.ie
August 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!
Mail carrier brought this gem today. Thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social. Can you imagine asking Keynes for advice on your 401k?
July 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Mail carrier brought this gem today. Thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social. Can you imagine asking Keynes for advice on your 401k?
Just finished her audiobook reading of Cranford. Splendid. Also recommend her reading of The Railway Children.
June 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just finished her audiobook reading of Cranford. Splendid. Also recommend her reading of The Railway Children.
Paging the STW hive, esp. @nonsuchbook.bsky.social!
@backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.
@backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.
June 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Paging the STW hive, esp. @nonsuchbook.bsky.social!
@backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.
@backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.
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The news is all terrible, but the Post Office’s new baby wild animals stamps are good.
June 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The news is all terrible, but the Post Office’s new baby wild animals stamps are good.
Perfect listen for a summer drive about a perfect summer book. I especially loved @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social idea about “the excess of possibility” that suffuses the web of life. Still thinking about that. 🎧📚
Episode 36 (double chai!) is live!
The gang revels in their love for Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS.
onebrightbook.com/2025/06/11/e...
The gang revels in their love for Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS.
onebrightbook.com/2025/06/11/e...
Episode 36: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS by Sarah Orne Jewett, and chat about their current reading. For our next epis…
onebrightbook.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Perfect listen for a summer drive about a perfect summer book. I especially loved @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social idea about “the excess of possibility” that suffuses the web of life. Still thinking about that. 🎧📚
Seen on my hike today. Peace.
May 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Seen on my hike today. Peace.
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery
May 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery
100+ year-old magnolia fell down in a storm ~20 years ago at @nationaltrust.org.uk Overbeck’s Garden. Saw it blooming this year!
May 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
100+ year-old magnolia fell down in a storm ~20 years ago at @nationaltrust.org.uk Overbeck’s Garden. Saw it blooming this year!
“too many souls, like sacks of grain/strapped to my back”
Brilliant @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Delmore Schwartz. @nybooks.com
Brilliant @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Delmore Schwartz. @nybooks.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“too many souls, like sacks of grain/strapped to my back”
Brilliant @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Delmore Schwartz. @nybooks.com
Brilliant @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Delmore Schwartz. @nybooks.com
Mother’s Day weekend reads. 🙏🏻
@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
@ds228.bsky.social
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
@ds228.bsky.social
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mother’s Day weekend reads. 🙏🏻
@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
@ds228.bsky.social
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
@ds228.bsky.social
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This is very true in my experience. Went hiking with my team on a 6,000 acre wilderness preserve my organization stewards. The pageant of life was thrilling to behold as spring comes to the Vermont woods.
April 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is very true in my experience. Went hiking with my team on a 6,000 acre wilderness preserve my organization stewards. The pageant of life was thrilling to behold as spring comes to the Vermont woods.
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“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”
—Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
—Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
April 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”
—Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
—Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
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This, by @nicktriolo.bsky.social, himself something of a fleet-footed mystic, on Thomas Merton, rewilding, the ghost of the Iberian lynx, and Portugal’s Coa River, is a stunner. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-smal...
A Small King – Nicholas Triolo
With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and...
emergencemagazine.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This, by @nicktriolo.bsky.social, himself something of a fleet-footed mystic, on Thomas Merton, rewilding, the ghost of the Iberian lynx, and Portugal’s Coa River, is a stunner. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-smal...
Which one should I read next?
Also planning to reread The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald.
Also planning to reread The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald.
April 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Which one should I read next?
Also planning to reread The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald.
Also planning to reread The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald.
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The Times / Sunday Times paywall is down all weekend, so here's👇where you can read all my stuff for free, with selected highlights to follow: 🧵
www.thetimes.com/profile/john...
www.thetimes.com/profile/john...
John Self | The Times & The Sunday TimesTwitter Icon
John Self is a freelance writer and book critic. In his previous career he was a lawyer, which like his present role involved the art of persuasion.
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The Times / Sunday Times paywall is down all weekend, so here's👇where you can read all my stuff for free, with selected highlights to follow: 🧵
www.thetimes.com/profile/john...
www.thetimes.com/profile/john...
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Three studies of a titmouse or a bearded reedling, by Pisanello. Today is his day.
February 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Three studies of a titmouse or a bearded reedling, by Pisanello. Today is his day.
“Trances of thought and mountings of the mind”
This glorious illustrated edition of The Prelude by William Wordsworth is my weekend read.
From the introduction; “. . . the growth of sympathy and love are nourished from roots in the physical world.”@brandeispress.bsky.social
This glorious illustrated edition of The Prelude by William Wordsworth is my weekend read.
From the introduction; “. . . the growth of sympathy and love are nourished from roots in the physical world.”@brandeispress.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Trances of thought and mountings of the mind”
This glorious illustrated edition of The Prelude by William Wordsworth is my weekend read.
From the introduction; “. . . the growth of sympathy and love are nourished from roots in the physical world.”@brandeispress.bsky.social
This glorious illustrated edition of The Prelude by William Wordsworth is my weekend read.
From the introduction; “. . . the growth of sympathy and love are nourished from roots in the physical world.”@brandeispress.bsky.social
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Many congratulations to the winners of this year's Science + Literature awards, sponsored by
@nationalbook.bsky.social + Sloan Foundation:! apnews.com/article/scie...
@nationalbook.bsky.social + Sloan Foundation:! apnews.com/article/scie...
Authors of fiction, poetry and nonfiction receive $10,000 prizes for blending art and science
Books about a family’s exploration of the natural world, the challenges of parenthood during a time of climate crisis and how animals perceive the planet have won $10,000 prizes for their exemplary bl...
apnews.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Many congratulations to the winners of this year's Science + Literature awards, sponsored by
@nationalbook.bsky.social + Sloan Foundation:! apnews.com/article/scie...
@nationalbook.bsky.social + Sloan Foundation:! apnews.com/article/scie...